John Stanley may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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John Stanley (cartoonist) (1914–1993), comic book writer and artist best known for ''Little Lulu''
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John Stanley (composer)
Charles John Stanley (17 January 1712 Old Style – 19 May 1786) was an English composer and organist.
Biography
John Stanley was born in London on 17 January 1712. At about the age of two, he fell on a marble hearth with a china basin in hi ...
(1712–1786), English composer and organist
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John Stanley (playwright)
John Stanley (born 1966) is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is best known as the writer of ''Proud'', a play written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Admiral Duncan bombing in Soho, London, and as the screenwriter of the Britis ...
(born 1966), British playwright and screenwriter
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John Stanley (radio broadcaster)
John Stanley is an Australian radio broadcaster, who was the co-host with Paul B. Kidd of the breakfast show on Sydney radio station 2GB
2GB is a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia owned by parent company Nine Radio, a divis ...
, Australian radio presenter
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John Mix Stanley
John Mix Stanley (January 17, 1814 – April 10, 1872) was an artist-explorer, an American painter of landscapes, and Native American portraits and tribal life. Born in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he started painting signs and portraits ...
(1814–1872), American artist-explorer
Politics and government
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John Stanley (KG)
Sir John Stanley, KG (–1414) of Lathom, near Ormskirk in Lancashire, was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and titular King of Mann, the first of that name. He married a wealthy heiress, Isabel Lathom, which, combined with his own great abilities ...
(c. 1350–1414), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and King of Mann
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Sir John Stanley (died 1437)
Sir John Stanley (c. 1386–1437) was Knight, Sheriff of Anglesey, Constable of Carnarvon, Justice of Chester, Steward of Macclesfield and titular King of Mann, the second of that name.
Biography
His father Sir John Stanley I, Lord Lieuten ...
(c. 1386–1437), his son, King of Mann, MP for Lancashire
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Sir John Stanley, 1st Baronet
Sir John Stanley, 1st Baronet (1663 – 30 November 1744) of Grangegorman, Co. Dublin was an Irish politician.
Biography
Stanley was born in Tickencor, County Waterford, the son of Sir Thomas Stanley of Grangegorman, Dublin and his wife, Jane ...
(1663–1744), Chief Secretary for Ireland and Member of Parliament (MP) for Gorey
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Sir John Thomas Stanley, 6th Baronet (1735–1807), British landowner and amateur scientist
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John Stanley (Hastings MP)
John Stanley (1740 – 1 April 1799) was a British politician and colonial lawyer.
He was born the eldest son of Michael Stanley of St. John's on the Caribbean island of Nevis and sent to London to be trained in the law at the Inns of Court i ...
(1740–1799), British MP for Hastings
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John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley
John Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley (26 November 1766 – 23 October 1850), known as Sir John Stanley, 7th Baronet, from 1807 to 1839, was a British peer and politician.
Life
Stanley was the son of Sir John Thomas Stanley FRSE (17 ...
(1766–1850), British peer and politician
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John Stanley (judge)
Sir John Stanley (22 November 1846 – 7 December 1931) was a Chief Justice of the North-Western Provinces in British India at the High Court of Allahabad. He was born in Armagh to the Stanley family of Derryhale, County Armagh, Ulster. He wa ...
(1846–1931), Chief Justice of North Western Provinces, British India
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John Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby
Edward John Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby, (21 April 1918 – 28 November 1994), styled Lord Stanley from 1938 to 1948, was a British peer, landowner and businessman.
Background and education
The eldest son of Lord Stanley and the Hon. Sibyl ...
(1918–1994), British peer, landowner and businessman
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John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling MP)
Sir John Paul Stanley (born 19 January 1942) is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tonbridge and Malling from 1974 to 2015.
Education
Stanley was educated at two independent schools: at Copthorn ...
(born 1942), British politician
Other
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Neck Stanley (John Wayman Stanley, 1905–1959), American baseball player
See also
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